I’m not convinced about
the hype and spin in the wake of the American election. After all, if your car is burning oil, you
don’t fix it by simply changing the driver.
Now don’t get me wrong,
it’s great to see Clinton and the international liberal establishment get such
an enormous kick up the arse. But the
real question is whether this makes really that much of a difference in terms
of the overall problems facing us.
The major problem is
that we are in the terminal stage of a collapsing civilisation which cannot be
rescued. There will be ups and downs and
momentary blips on the political cardiac monitor, but the fact is that the
overall direction is inexorably down.
Now I may be
wrong. The Trump victory will inevitably
galvanise traditionalist forces all over the world. The liberal agenda-ists will be compelled,
too, to retreat to their corner and lick their wounds—that is if they do not,
like with Brexit, set about trying to dismantle the result through the
courts. One way or another, they will
not go away—they are much too ideologically committed and relentless for that.
But, as I say, what is
going on at the moment is, in my belief anyway, merely a lesser cycle within
the greater overall cycle of the downwards spiral of Western civilisation.
By all means, enjoy
things for the moment. But try not to
lose sight of the bigger picture.
Like a space lab being
dragged out of orbit and into the grip of a full-on gravity, the liberal
activism of the past two plus centuries, and especially of the past fifty or so
years, has damaged things to the extent that they are unrepairable.
Things are going to
change as a result of this—but in a fundamentally uncontrollable way.
[This mailing was written on November 9th, but couldn't be uploaded at the time because of apparent overloading of the site.]
